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Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls , and continued as they advance in life , it will be at once monitor and guide to themselves , and may be of incalculable value in the crystallization of history . I remember a ...
Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls , and continued as they advance in life , it will be at once monitor and guide to themselves , and may be of incalculable value in the crystallization of history . I remember a ...
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I remember - who of middle age does not ? -when the proposition made to tax the people of Philadelphia and the State for the construction of the Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were overwhelmed by sinister ...
I remember - who of middle age does not ? -when the proposition made to tax the people of Philadelphia and the State for the construction of the Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were overwhelmed by sinister ...
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“ Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republican , ” was his quick reply , and I finished my remarks as best I could . Jackson was elected to Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term ...
“ Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republican , ” was his quick reply , and I finished my remarks as best I could . Jackson was elected to Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term ...
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How well I remember some of the orators of other days— the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! The South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhetORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 а oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF ...
How well I remember some of the orators of other days— the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! The South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhetORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 а oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF ...
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What reader of these sketches who lives in Pennsylvania does not remember those days ? Colonel James Page , Benjamin Harris Brewster , George W. Barton , Horn R. Kneass , Henry M. Phillips , Henry Simpson , William Badger , Ellis B.
What reader of these sketches who lives in Pennsylvania does not remember those days ? Colonel James Page , Benjamin Harris Brewster , George W. Barton , Horn R. Kneass , Henry M. Phillips , Henry Simpson , William Badger , Ellis B.
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1873 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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